Author: Mick Hartley

ld they not gloat? They have seen before what happens when a man with no moral compass stumbles into their grasp, mistaking submission for strategy, imagining that the bear, if sufficiently flattered, might yet become a lapdog.

Meanwhile, Medvedev mutters about Ukraine’s “maximum defeat,” as though he were announcing the weather rather than the obliteration of a sovereign nation. Putin, that hollow-eyed relic of Soviet ambition, hands out Russian passports to Ukrainians under the threat of starvation and exile, the oldest trick of empire dressed up as benevolence. And now, as if to complete the grim farce, the Belarusian despot Lukashenko offers to host a “peace summit,” no doubt picturing himself as a modern-day Metternich while playing court jester to the Kremlin.

We have seen this theatre before, and we know how it ends: not with peace, but with the tightening grip of conquest. And yet, astonishingly, the so-called leader of the free world is playing along, demanding not that the aggressor withdraw, but that the victim surrender. This is not diplomacy; it is capitulation dressed as pragmatism, appeasement masquerading as statesmanship. Europe must take note: America is no longer a reliable ally.

Worse than "no longer a reliable ally": now actively supporting our enemies. They've switched sides.

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If this is true, then yes, the whole Oval Office farrago  – the humiliation of Zelensky to get a response – was indeed a set-up.

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nd Falasha, strictly Orthodox and happily irreligious – but for Hamas none of that matters. Israel must be erased because it is the national home of the “Yahud”. Hamas are not seeking to fight a war of resistance against another nation but a war of elimination against Jewish existence. It’s there in their constitution. It was there in the gleeful messages their fighters sent home on October 7 when they gloried in the spilling of – specifically – Jewish blood.

The BBC have, of course, apologised for their mistake in broadcasting the documentary as it was. Which should be gracefully acknowledged. But this one programme was not broadcast in isolation. And the use of “Yahud” in this way was not a one off. Again and again the BBC, and its Arabic service, cover conflict in the Middle East in a manner not so much one-sided as wilfully morally blind. Every time they are found to have made a mistake – whether it’s over who bombed a hospital or who produces reliable statistics on casualties they apologise. Which is good. But what they have not done – yet – is acknowledge that all these errors, omissions, mistranslations, gullible repetitions and propaganda-relating is consistently anti-Israel.

I can’t think of a single occasion where the BBC, let alone its Arabic service, has made an identifiable editorial error by being too trusting of Israeli sources or too indulgent to pro-Israel voices. There’s a pattern here….

Their determination to whitewash Hamas, and paint the Israelis as the aggressors, requires that they refuse to acknowledge the antisemitism that drives Hamas, and, in particular, refuse to acknowledge the dominant role of Islam here. They're distorting the truth no less than Trump is distorting the truth when he talks about Ukraine and Putin.

Update: Starmer knows it's all about Islam.

Keir Starmer speaks at the first ever Ramadan Iftar event inside the British Parliament.

“…I know [this] has been a very difficult time for Muslims in the United Kingdom with the pain of the conflict in Gaza and the suffering of the Palestinians.”

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UN security council resolutions.

Are they perhaps angling for some attention from the Big Orange Donald? Last time, despite the photo ops of the two great men together, nothing was achieved. But times have changed.

Trump had three meetings with Kim Jong-un during his first term, although the two men failed to agree on terms for North Korean denuclearisation. Since returning to the White House, the US president has said little about his policy towards North Korea.

He caused some alarm by referring to Kim Jong-un as “a nuclear power”, a term that is generally applied only to the US, Russia, China, France and Britain. Although it is well known that North Korea possesses nuclear warheads, in diplomatic terms the use of the expression implies an acceptance of them, and an abandonment of efforts at disarmament.

Hmm. No doubt Trump will at some point announce his bold new plan for North Korea. He'll "make a deal".

We're being told by commentators and strategists that this is all a clever game, demonstrating the unique Trump genius, whereby he can finally focus his mind on the great issue of China instead of being distracted by side issues like Ukraine, the alliance of the free world nations, NATO, and the future of Europe. But since his last term North Korea has pivoted from being China's close ally to being a friend of Putin. Indeed relations between China and North Korea are rumoured to have become somewhat strained, as North Korean troops are despatched to Ukraine and North Korean arms are supplied to Moscow. Will Trump factor this in? Will he acknowledge North Korea as a bona fide nuclear power to please Putin, and annoy Xi?

Anything's possible.

ile absurd, was the only game in town. Well, it seems they're taking this seriously. Trump has got them talking.

From the Times:

Arab states have adopted a $53 billion plan to reconstruct Gaza while sidelining Hamas, in a proposal they hope will forestall President Trump’s demand to empty the territory of its inhabitants and turn it into a US-controlled “Riviera”.

Leaders from the 22-member Arab League met at a summit in Cairo on Tuesday, despite sharp divisions between some of the countries over the future governance of the Gaza Strip, which Hamas has controlled since expelling Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority in 2007.

Abbas, who was present at the meeting, said he welcomed the plan and called on Trump to aid with the reconstruction without carrying out the US president’s previous proposal to displace Gaza’s 2.1 million inhabitants and turn it into a “Middle East Riviera”.

Egypt produced a detailed blueprint of its proposals in a 91-page document, including pictures of brand new public buildings.

And very nice they look too. 

The plan envisages 200,000 housing units to be built in Gaza and more than $50 billion in aid to fund its reconstruction, overseen by a committee with Hamas playing no role. Such funding is likely to centre on hefty contributions from oil-rich Gulf states.

It's a positive development after the Arab world has for years refused to get involved. But they still don't want any Gazans – fellow Arabs – moving in. And Hamas, of course, is refusing to disarm, or go away any time soon.

Deborah Lipstadt, the historian perhaps best known here for her part in the David Irving case – which she won after he sued her for libel – summarises her reasons for turning down a teaching post at Columbia University:

My decision to withdraw my name from consideration for a teaching post at Columbia is based on three calculations. First, I am not convinced that the university is serious about taking the necessary and difficult measures that would create an atmosphere that allows for true inquiry.

Second, I fear that my presence would be used as a sop to convince the outside world that “Yes, we in the Columbia/Barnard orbit are fighting antisemitism. We even brought in the former Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism.” I will not be used to provide cover for a completely unacceptable situation.

Third, I am not sure that I would be safe or even able to teach without being harassed. I do not flinch in the face of threats. But this is not a healthy or acceptable learning environment.

On too many university campuses, the inmates—and these may include administrators, student disrupters, and off-campus agitators as well as faculty members—are running the asylum. They are turning universities into parodies of true academic inquiry.

We are at a crisis point. Unless this situation is addressed forcefully and unequivocally, one of America’s great institutions, its system of higher education, could well collapse. There are many in this country—including those in significant positions of power—who would delight in seeing that happen. The failure to stand up to disrupters who are preventing other students from learning gives the opponents of higher education the very tools they need.

Meanwhile, absent direct and comprehensive action to protect Jewish students and the campus environment, I will not be teaching on Columbia’s campus.

Democrats Block Bill to Bar Transgender Girls From Female Sports Teams.

We've barely heard a whisper from leading Democrats as Trump, in a single week, has destroyed the US position as leader of the free world, and now sets about ruining the economy with his tariffs. But one thing that they will stand up for – the hill they're prepared to die on: the rights of men to compete in women's sport. 

On the other hand…

Kuwaiti Islamic scholar Othman Al-Khamees said in a February 28, 2025 episode of Insan_Podcast that it is the duty of the Muslims to pray on behalf of the people Gaza. He said: “May Allah annihilate those damned Jews,” and he added that it is not difficult for Allah to annihilate them. Al-Khamees said that although Hamas is a “deviant” political group, it should not be conflated with the people of Palestine and Gaza. He stated that Hamas has flung itself on the lap of Iran, but the people of Gaza have done nothing wrong, and Hamas are still Muslims, “despite their deviations.” Al-Khamees emphasized that now is not the time to oppose or criticize Hamas and that after the war certain groups can be destroyed. He said that he can hate Hamas but still support the group against the Jews.